Timestamp in filename of autom. caps

[Barbara]

I'm using vlc to automatically take screencaps every x frames. This is the basic code but I want to change the filename so that it has a timestamp. i.e. IMG-hour.minute.second.png
I read about format strings so I tried:

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vlc --video-filter="scene" --scene-prefix="IMG-$T" -V dummy

but it doesn't work. Can anyone help?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

use -vvv to have more info

[Barbara]

Like this?

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vlc --video-filter="scene" --scene-prefix="IMG-$T" -vvv dummy

It gives me this error.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

-vvv -V dummy

[Barbara]

Thanks! Uhm ok, it's basically the same name as before. And I'm beginning to suspect it's not the right command because the files names are scene$T00001.png, scene$T00013.png, etc instead of IMG-xxxxxx.png
This is what I have for the scene filter. It's as if the two commands get mixed up, the 'scene' part of the filename comes from the GUI while the '$T' part is from the command line.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Maybe it is just a bug in the scene filter. File a report on trac.videolan.org

[neot]

I need to do the same thing so could you give me a link to the bug report. I am going to write an LUA extension so that VLC can convert Video to CDG format.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I need to do the same thing so could you give me a link to the bug report. I am going to write an LUA extension so that VLC can convert Video to CDG format.

This is a totally different topic.